Beginning devolpment on OOo

Stéphane VANDENBOGAERDE /vst .Y wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to use OpenOffice for documentation purpsoe,
and I'd like to get
> some advices in ordet to know what is the best way for
that.
> I don't know at all OpenOffice development.
> 
> My company uses a command-line 3D renderer, and this
one uses many kind of
> nodes to describe the 3D scenes. Through the
command-line, I can get the
> list of the nodes, and the parameters of these nodes.
> 
> What I'd like to do is put these info in a Calc
document, according a
> defined style (layout, cells colors) in order to add
some infos
> (description of the nodes, range values...), and
finally, export that in a
> HTML doucment (with a customized export).
> 
> Also, at each new release of the renderer, I want to
scan my Calc
> document, and updating it with the changes of the new
version (new
> features will be added, and their cell put in red, for
example).
> 
> I am a 3D programmer, and so I am not supposed to do a
lot of OpenOffice
> development.
> 
> Is it possible to satisfy my needs without to go too
thoroughly in the OOo
> API, with some Python and XML work, by working on
OpenOffice documents,
> and not OpenOffice itself ?
> 
> What is the best way ? Could you point me to some sites
to do that ?
> Thanks.

You mentioned that you don't want to program the office
itself and in 
this case i would recommend that you create a template with
the office 
and create your document based on this template with some
xslt stuff. 
Maybe combined with some scripting.
Especially the second requirement of changing or extending
existing docs 
will probably require some more scripting.
I can't really point you to some good resources because the
API project 
covers more the office API and the programming of the office
instead of 
working on ODF directly.

If you want to use the API and the office in the background
for your 
work, you should take a look into the DevGuide and the SDK
examples.

Juergen



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